Left on the side of the road
I saw something a little disturbing on the way to the shops yesterday. In one sense, I could completely understand how angry the mother must have been, but the rest of me felt very very sad for her poor son.
I was travelling the car with the kids. We were going on a busy road, when I saw a car stopped on the side of the road.
A woman got out the car and ran around to the back door on the passenger side of the vehicle. She opened the door and yanked her son out. He must’ve been about 7 or 8 years old, and he landed on the floor and kicked her. She didn’t say a word to him, then slammed the door shut, ran around the car again and jumped into the drivers seat and turned the car on.
And then I couldn’t see any more. I wonder whether she actually drove off without him. If she did, she couldn’t have gotten far, because he wasn’t there when I went back home that way 15 minutes later.
Can you imagine how scared that boy was?
I think that must’ve been a very scary experience even if his mother had allowed him back into the car before driving off… let alone if she’d actually left him there.
And before you say why didn’t you stop… I had the kids in the car and didn’t want them to be influenced by her crazy antics. If he was on the road when we came home, I would’ve picked him up.
This has got me thinking… that mother has no idea how much damage she’s doing to him. He’s going to grow up thinking that it’s OK to get angry enough to leave a loved one on the side of the road… and that’s never OK.
It made me wonder whether a guy I knew a long time ago had a similar experience when he was younger. Let me elaborate.
One evening, long time ago, a friend and I met 2 guys in a bar. I had a fling with the one guy, she ended up having a fling with the other guy. My fling ended quite quickly… as my relationships tended to during that time 
, but she saw this guy for a while. And he ended up being quite a scary and scaly character.
A few months later, she bumped into his next girlfriend in a club, and she asked how he was doing. This woman told my friend, that they ended up fighting quite hectically, and one night, he got so angry with her, that he stopped on the highway (in the middle of the night), threw her out the car and just left her there!! She didn’t have a cell phone or anything, and had to find her way home… and she hadn’t seen him since.
Scary shit! So lady in the car… if by chance you’re reading this blog… just careful what you’re teaching your son!!
That’s disgusting parenting, plain and simple. You don’t yank your child out of the car simply because he’s annoying you (I’d imagine that’s the reason). Children aren’t possessions, ffs!
My mum dropped me off at the orphanage once. I don’t blame her. Single parent. Over active child. I got the message. We laugh about it now. I don’t think we can ever really now how far someone is pushed. I think in SA it’s a dangerous move to drop kids on the side of the road, even if it’s just for that second. But any worse than smacking or screaming? All teach something.
Horrible story. I hate seeing things like that. I can understand the anger, but not the action.
Seriously….NOT.OKAY!!!!!
I can’t even imagine having that much anger and rage inside to even contemplate something like that. And you’re right about the action teaching the poor child that sort of thing is acceptable. Sad
Scary stuff!
I imagine it is scary… but to be entirely honest- I have been more than a little tempted to do the same thing to my knucklehead on more than one occasion.
That is so sad. Some parents must really learn how to effectively discipline their kids
I think it’s shocking! That is not the way to punish the child. I have heard (not long ago) of a similar story where the mother yanked the child out and drove a few metres and then reversed to fetch the crying child. Shocking!
Happened to me.